[Corpora-List] querying corpora

[Albretch Mueller]

 I was wondering about the kinds of queries you may run on open
corpora out there
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 Let me explain myself with a convoluted example:
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 Could you, say, run a query asking a corpus to give you the result
about how many times, where in a sentence (both, as a distribution of
the number of words, the POS elements used in them and the texts as a
whole) did Shakespeare use words related to "love" (which you should
be also able to query even with a certain level of "measurable
relatedness") modified by an adverb and containing also an adjective
within the sentence?
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 Are there studies on "queriability" of corpora regarding depth (look
above), accuracy, speed and other performance features?
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 Are there any text corpora out there including phonemes also?
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 How would a data retrieval standard like SQL help in outlining a
standard for text retrieval?
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 Thanks
 lbrtchx

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